The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father.

This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump – -helped along by Aras and Emin.

Right there, Trump Jr. had every reason to believe he was about to collude with the Russian government to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. And he had no problem with that; maybe it’s just sleazy to do it and not illegal.

But not illegal doesn’t make it okay. I am no lawyer but David French is, and he thinks its really not okay.

I would have thought you were a conspiracy theorist. No one is that explicit, right? That's a bad episode of House of Cards, right? /2

Trump loyalists will say “so what?” Trump opponents will want to pursue treason charges. In the middle, we will have that gray area where we will have to make up our minds at just how bad this looks.

To me, it looks really bad.

Whether this leads to a conspiracy charge somewhere down the line is for the lawyers and Mueller’s investigation to determine. Trump Jr. said “the woman, as she has said publicly, was not a government official.” But Trump would have taken the meeting even if she was, and there’s no evidence from the emails that he didn’t believe she was before the meeting.

Paul Manafort also knew this, as well as Jared Kushner (who has a law degree but does not practice). The top people in Trump’s campaign are now implicated in Trump Jr.’s poor decision. Whatever bus is coming, they will be under it with him.

The fact that nothing came of the meeting doesn’t change the fact that they were willing and ready to collude their collective behinds off. It’s bad.